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Mercy Corps — Seasonal Migration Pilot Project and RCT

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  • Focus Area: Immigration Policy
  • Organization Name: Mercy Corps
  • Amount: $1,000,000

  • Award Date: April 2020

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    Mercy Corps staff work alongside community members and leaders, solving the challenges most pressing for them. Here, a family in Zinder, Niger, discusses family dynamics. (Photo courtesy of Mercy Corps.)

    Grant Investigators: Zachary Robinson and Alexander Berger

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. Mercy Corps staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,000,000 over two years to Mercy Corps, in partnership with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, to conduct a pilot project with a randomized control trial (RCT) on seasonal migration for rural Nigeriens. The project and the RCT will examine the drivers and returns to seasonal migration, and will subsidize the transportation of underemployed men in the rural Tillabéri region to urban centers in Niger and surrounding countries.

    This falls within our focus area of immigration policy.

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